echo
pronunciation
How to pronounce echo in British English:
UK [ˈekəʊ]
How to pronounce echo in American English:
US [ˈekoʊ]
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- Noun:
- the persistence of a sound after its source has stopped
- a reply that repeats what has just been said
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- Verb:
- to say again or imitate
- ring or echo with sound
- call to mind
Word Origin
- echo
- echo: [14] Echo comes via Old French or Latin from Greek ēkhó, a word related to ēkhé ‘sound’. It may have originated as a personification of the concept ‘sound’, which developed eventually into the mythological mountain nymph Echo, who faded away for love of Narcissus until nothing but her voice was left. (The Greek verb derived from ēkhé, ēkhein, is the ultimate source of English catechism.)=> catechism
- echo (n.)
- mid-14c., "sound repeated by reflection," from Latin echo, from Greek echo, personified in classical mythology as a mountain nymph who pined away for love of Narcissus until nothing was left of her but her voice, from or related to ekhe "sound," ekhein "to resound," from PIE *wagh-io-, extended form of root *(s)wagh- "to resound" (cognates: Sanskrit vagnuh "sound," Latin vagire "to cry," Old English swogan "to resound"). Related: Echoes. Echo chamber attested from 1937.
- echo (v.)
- 1550s (intrans.), c. 1600 (trans.), from echo (n.). Related: Echoed; echoing.
Example
- 1. The echo of today 's marketing language is no accident .
- 2. Please put a statue of me in echo park .
- 3. We , the children of the echo , should get a life .
- 4. Annexes of echo overgrow the empty house .
- 5. Many corporate titans echo his sentiments .